As part of the Puccini festival, the Hungarian State Opera is giving Pussini's La Rondine its first Hungarian staging since it was first presented in this country in 1927 at the City Theatre, in a production directed by Ferenc Anger being mounted in partnership with the Hungarian Opera of Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca).

Having celebrated the Puccini anniversaries, with its new season the Hungarian State Opera will introduce the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress that is to take place in Budapest in 2020. The Opera announces its Christian Spirit Season as a monumental prologue to this significant event. At the Erkel Theatre and the newly opened Eiffel Art Studios, productions are to be staged that have either been inspired by biblical stories, or those that convey Christian ideas and values in more indirect ways, but also ones which debate them.

Oh, my God! – is what the astonished audience might have said seeing George Balanchine’s and Harald Lander’s innovative choreographies when they were first performed. The OMG dance show of the Hungarian National Ballet pays tribute to the work of the two choreographers, evoking the era between 1947 and 1950 with three pieces from the oeuvres of the two masters.

The Opera House in Budapest is currently undergoing extensive restoration and modernisation. Until its reopening in 2020, our performances can be seen at the Erkel Theatre, the second venue of the Hungarian State Opera.

Having celebrated the Puccini anniversaries, with its new season the Hungarian State Opera will introduce the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress that is to take place in Budapest in 2020. The Opera announces its Christian Spirit Season as a monumental prologue to this significant event. At the Erkel Theatre and the newly opened Eiffel Art Studios, productions are to be staged that have either been inspired by biblical stories, or those that convey Christian ideas and values in more indirect ways, but also ones which debate them.

The Hungarian State Opera offers a wide range of subscriptions for its 2019/20 Christian Spirit Season. The names of subscriptions for the 2019/20 seasons have changed, but their code numbers remain the same. This years' subscriptions have been named after artists who have been awarded the Kossuth Prize, named Chamber Singer, Étoile, or Chamber Artist, and take an active part in productions of the institute as singers, dancers, musicians, creative artists or consultants.

The Opera House in Budapest is currently undergoing extensive restoration and modernisation. Until its reopening in 2020, our performances can be seen at the Erkel Theatre, the second venue of the Hungarian State Opera.

Eugène Scribe

Librettist

(1791-1861)The French dramatist and librettist Eugène Scribe was born in Paris, the city that remained the centre of his creative activity throughout his entire life. The genre of the so-called pièce bien faite (“well-made play”) was codified based on his ideas and literary devices.He studied law at the Sorbonne, but abandoned his studies in order to work in theatre. His artistic breakthrough came in 1815, with the piece Une nuit de la garde nationale, which he wrote together with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson. Scribe would very often continue to work with collaborators afterwards as well: in order to handle the large quantity of work after achieving fame and popularity, he opened a workshop where he created the pieces together with his colleagues, dividing up the tasks.His initial successes came primarily from writing vaudevilles, for which he would eventually begin to adapt characters from individuals in contemporary society. Later on, he also became popular in other genres. He wrote a great many spoken dramas, nearly 150 for the Théâtre du Gymnase alone. One of his most famous comedies, Le verre d'eau, is still performed to this day.He was also sought after as a librettist, and wrote the text for more than 50 operas, with many of them premiered at the Opéra de Paris. He frequently collaborated with Giacomo Meyerbeer (Robert le diable, Les Huguenots, Le prophète) and also wrote librettos for Verdi (Les vêpres siciliennes), Auber, Halévy (La Juive), Donizetti, Rossini (Le comte Ory) and others.